The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-25
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

with ammunition, etc, found in the pos
session of the Tolliver gang and their
friends. IL is believed that this action
prevented another outbreak in the town.
Mrs. L. +. Hudson, of Lebanon, Tenn,
attempted to commit suicide few days
since by taking laudanum. Medical relief
was Immediately given, and there is some
hope of her recovery. Mrs. Hudson had
been in ill-health for some time.
Adolph Ienneck, editor Of the New Or.
leans Mascot, a sensational weekly, was
fatally shot few days ago in his office by
Daniel Bruen, who had been charged in
the Mascot with a liaison with married
woman.
During a street brawl in New Orleans a
few evenings since James DOran, a local
politician, shot John Neil. clerk of the civil
District Court. Neil will probably die. A
political quarrel led to the affray. The
men were intoxicated
Sheriff Webster, of Covington County,
Miss, arrested a negro few days who is
supposed to he Wallace Burke, who is
wanted for criminal assault on a lady at
Helena April %. He says his name is Sol
| DOds on.
During the recent food in the neighor-
hood of Macon, Ga, a number of cattle on
the swamp, and coming to a high barbed-
wire fence, it drove them back. They then
swan over the bars and into the yard, and
found the hay-loft so near the level of the
water that they scrambled into it. When
parties subsequently visited the farm they
! found that the waters had receded, leav-
| ing the cows high and dry on top of the
| hay. They had subsisted on this during
| the DAYS of the overflow. and were ap-
parentlv quite contented with their elevat =
| ed station.
The trial of Allie and z. T. Young at
MOrehead, KY, charged with a conspiracy
to kill Howard NJ. Logan, resulted in
verdict of mot guilty"
| Six hundred coal miners in Laurel COun-
| ty, KY, are out on strike. They demand
an increase of a half cent a bushel for
mining coal. A strike was expected at the
Jellico mines also.
There is brand of cigars called Ever
| Faithful" A large dog is autographed on
the cover, on his neck the above words are
printed. In the negro cemetery at Monte
yuma, Ca, one of the labels is pasted on
the head board of grave.
The venerable old French priest of St.
Martin sville, La, Father Ange Marie Jan,
was found dead in bed a few days ago.
| He was born in Brittany, France, in 1902.
Ex-Treasurer Vincent of Alabama has
been found guilty of robbing the State
| Treasury. Sentence will not be pronounced
| until after trial on the remaining indiCt-
| mentS.
| Jake Pettijohn, who was sentenced to be
| hung thirty years ago at Atlanta, Ga, foi
| killing Clayton Vaughn, but escaped by
| flight, was recently arrested in Indian
/ l. L. L.. l. s
| ecutiOn.
Silas T. Land, an ex-convict, has been
committed to jail, at Nashville, Tenn, to
await trial for highway robbery and mur.
der, having been arrested by City Mar
shal Mize, of Bowling Green, at Shaker
| town, Ky.
| Rev. VIM. Fox, minister of the NJ F..
| Church, South, who, in addition to filling
| the pupits of churches in Williamson and
| adjoining counties, in Tennessee, also
| keeps a store, has been arrested for selling
whisky without paying the Government
| license. Mr.. Fox was arraigned before a
| Commissioner at Franklin, W no bound him
| over for trial at the next term of the
| United States Court. The fact of the ar
| rest since it has leaked out, has created
considerable talk. Mr.. Fox is said to he a
strong prohibitiionist.
| AT Rockingham, s. c., a few days ago,
the body of a well-known colored man,
Wesley Leak, was found in Il box-car on
the side track of the Carolina Central rail-
road He had been stabbed through the
heart, and his body was lying i'll pool of
| blood The knife used was a butcher.
knife.
| A bloody affray took place at Coal Creek,
Tenn, a few days ago, between David Ad-
kins and John Mehaffey and his young
brother Ben. Knives were used, and all
the parties were frightfully butchered.
Ben Mehaffey died in a few hours, and his
brother was not expected to live. Adkins
| IS under arrest
While Willie Hawkins, aged three, and
| Oliver Atkins, aged five, were playing un-
Ter the porch of house in Memphis, Tenn,
A few days ago, the elder child obtained a
22-caliber pistol belonging to a negro liv-
ing on the place, and pointing it at his
playmate, pulled the trigger The bullet
pierced the little fellow just below the
| heart killing him almost instantly.
A farmer living on the Peachtree road,
near Atlanta, Ga, says that the woods
near his house are alive with snakes. One
| day recently he counted one hundred and
| fiftv crawlers during an hours stroll.
| There were wood-snakes and rattlesnakes,
and chicken snakes and a very large num-
ber of common blacksnakes. He thinks
that the late heavy rains washed them
from their holes.
Edward johnson, the noted express
robber, who has been fugitive from
Tennessee for more than a year was ar
rested in Cincinnati few days since.
johnson and a confederate twelve years
ago attacked an express messenger III
Memphis, and after beating him in most
money and tied.
William NJ. Shaw, a star-route contract
or of JonesbOro, Tenn, was arrested re-
Gently, charged with rifing registered let
ters, and was bound to court in the sum of
5000 He jumped his bond and tried to
leave the country, but was pursued by
officers They finally surrounded him in a
barn, and rather than submit to arrest
he drew a pocket-knife and severed the
iugular vein. He died almost instantly.
Mrs. Lily d. Murray, wife of DIR. Muir
ray of the United States Marine Hospital
died at Biloxi, Miss, few days since. As
no personal intercourse is permitted be
tween the quarantine station and the main
land, DIR. Murray and his family We're iso-
lated from their relatives, which renders
this calamity peculiarly distressing. There
are no ladies on the island, and no clergy
men could be obtained to administer the
consolation of religion.
Yellow fever is not dead yet.
The city of Knoxville, Tenn, recently
voted 100000 to aid the building of two
new railroads. One, the Powell's Valley
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